Photosynthesis is the metabolic pathway by which energy and carbon
enter the web of life. Photosynthetic organisms are at the base of the
food chains that make up and sustain the diverse web of life on earth.
They provide food in the form of glucose for other organisms that feed
upon them. The energy contained within their covalent bonds is
transferred to organisms that ingest the glucose molecules or other
molecules formed from glucose or its breakdown products.Photosynthetic phytoplankton are at the base of the marine food
chain. El Nino causes changes in ocean circulation, which suppresses the
upwelling of vital nutrients that the phytoplankton depend on for
growth and reproduction.What would you expect the consequences of El Nino to be for marine food chains?What impact, if any, might this have on humans and the global environment?
Phytoplankton Ecology and Impact Discussion
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Planning for a Business Start Up
order essay cheap ‘Would it be feasible to open an electrical goods store in Thame?’ Thame is in ‘Oxon’ (Oxfordshire). Abstract This report examines the business case for a start up business in Thame, Oxfordshire. The business in question is that of an electrical retailer, and the possibilities for both a small, independent enterprise and a large chain multiple are considered here. The report first considers the contemporary economic and retail environment, and then the relevant facts about Thame itself. It then looks at the possible market segmentation associated with the business, and considers some projected cashflow and expenditure models. In conclusion, the report does not foresee any guarantees of success for such a venture in the present climate, although it may be possible to accrue small margins through diversifying the business into e.commerce. Conversely, it may be that forthcoming large scale ventures have better prospects. 1. Introduction. This report examines the business case for starting a new venture in the form of an electrical retailer in Thame, Oxfordshire. It does so with due regard for the contemporary economic and retailing environment, as well as the relative prospects of a small, independent business as against a larger, diversified one. As Groom speculates, ‘A recession can be a smart time to launch a business or innovate, if you can find the money to invest. Competitors are struggling to cut costs and you can look forward to the upturn.’ (1). Liquidity in terms of start up costs, inventory, stock and rents is a key factor for consumer facing businesses, who cannot confidently predict their actual margins in the current climate. As will be discussed below, there are likely to be significant developments in UK electrical retailing sector over the next few years: not even the established multiple chains are assured of retaining their current margins. The one area which may offer smaller players a significant opportunity is e.commerce. As Hooley et al. point out, ‘A significant feature of the Internet is the shift in power away from manufacturers and retailers towards customers. While the period to the middle of the twentieth century saw power concentrated in the hands of manufacturers and suppliers…the customer now typically initiates an information search, whereas in the past the manufacturer or the retailer initiated and controlled this.’ (2) 2. A worthwhile business opportunity? The local/national competition. In the absence of detailed and focused market research data, the business case must be projected from the available circumstantial evidence. We will begin this discussion by looking at the market conditions for electrical goods and UK retailing in general. Both the British Retail Consortium and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reported worsening trade figures in November 2008, with non-discretionary purchases, i.e. food and drink, the only categories not to be depressed. (3) A recent Bank of England survey reported that Banks are imposing tougher lending standards on loans and credit cards, although interest rate cuts may encourage households to spend money freed off by heaper mortgage repayments. As one analyst observes, ‘Non-food retail sales are driven by real wage growth, credit availability and housing wealth. Since real incomes, after inflation, have been falling for about two years, consumers have dipped into savings, and used remortgaging and credit cards to maintain spending. Things are now reversing.’ (4) A depressed housing market will further impact upon electrical retailing through a lower demand for appliances. The major multiple and discount electrical store chains are suffering from poor sales and margins at present, due to the following factors… Depressed housing markets have resulted in lower sales of refrigerators, washing machines and other white goods. A price war between television manufacturers has depressed profit margins on these goods by 1 per cent in the second half of 2008. Sales of flat-screen TV’s have slowed to the level of white goods. Margins have been further reduced in pre-Christmas price cutting, with rival chains holding sales to reduce stock levels. (5) In specific company terms, this means that Comet’s like for like sales are down 11.6 per cent from 2007, and Kesa, its Anglo-French owned parent company, has suffered a first half loss. Its shares recently suffered an 11.9 pence fall to 142.5 pence, and it is planning to cut costs through redundancies in its UK stores. DSG International, Comet’s closest competitor, has recently scrapped its dividend on the same basis. (6) As a background to this, large format outlets in retail park developments have been contracting, with Comet and Curry’s planning to rationalise their chains. Meanwhile, Tesco and Asda are expanding their non-discretionary and homewares businesses, and Argos is reportedly expanding. DSG have also opened a 60,000 square foot outlet near Birmingham, under the Currys megastore brand. In the long term, there may be competition from completely new entrants, such as Carphone Warehoue, which is currently opening US electrical stores in partnership with Best Buy. ( 7) The Best Buy/Carphone partnership has already projected 200 large consumer electrical stores in Europe by 2013, with 100 of these in the UK. They will be going head to head with Curry’s, Comet and PC World, and projecting sales of £6.2 billion by 2013. ( 8) This is based on anticipated margins of 5.6 per cent, whereas current incumbents such as Currys and Comet trade on typical margins of 1 per cent. It is planned to achieve this more favourable margin by adopting a ‘know your customer’ approach: as Charles Dunstone puts it, ‘If you go to a lot of electrical stores now, they just keep the rain off the stock, no one there does anything, they don’t display it nicely, if you ask a question they just read the label back to you.’ (9). 3. The Local and Regional Trading Context. Thame is in a relatively affluent area. A detached house in the town is currently valued at an average of £383,799, with the entry level flat or maisonette costing an average of £167,994. (10) Council tax is likely to rise in 2009, with a Band ‘D’ tax payer facing an increase of £3.05. (11) . The area is already well provided with electrical retail outlets. Curry’s has ten stores within a twenty five mile radius of Thame, including three in Reading, two in High Wycombe and two in Aylesbury. There are five Comet electrical stores within the same area : Aylesbury, Oxford (Cowley), Oxford, High Wycombe, and Reading, the closest of which is 8.7 miles away. Tesco and Asda, which both sell household electricals, have stores within an 8 mile radius of Thame: Tesco’s Princes Risborough store is 7.65 miles away, whilst Asda’s Wheatley outlet is only 6.05 miles. DIY outlets such as B
UCSD How Simple Ideas Led to Scientific Discoveries TedTalk Analysis Discussion
UCSD How Simple Ideas Led to Scientific Discoveries TedTalk Analysis Discussion.
In this talk, Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed — Eratosthenes’ calculation of the Earth’s circumference around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau’s measurement of the speed of light in 1849.To complete this assignment:A- Listen to this talk.B- Click on Submit assignment and using the text box:Answer this question from the video: At what time on the solstice, the shadow of the person’s head looking at the well blocks the sun?Share a question, as simple or as complicated as you want, preferably related to science, or about something you think it could be answered through scientific inquiry, about something you would like to know? For example, why do sharks have a skeleton made of cartilage? or why does our body stop growing in size after certain age? why do cry when something hurts? …
UCSD How Simple Ideas Led to Scientific Discoveries TedTalk Analysis Discussion
CUNY Queensborough Community College Week 15 Langston Hughes Discussion
CUNY Queensborough Community College Week 15 Langston Hughes Discussion.
1. Write a paragraph summarizing your research on Langston Hughes. Include in-line and block quotations that illustrate and help explain what you learned. Add parenthetical page references and a Works Cited List entry.2. Hughes seems to express a range of moods or tones in his poems: if he sounds angry in “Harlem” or defeated in “The Weary Blues,” his voice is more hopeful in “I, Too,” prouder in “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” How does he sound in “Theme for English B”? What different feelings does he express in the poem? What is his attitude toward the white instructor.3. What is the “dream deferred” that Hughes writes about in “Harlem”? How do the images of what might happen to such a dream–“fester like a sore”; “stink like rotten meat”; and so forth, picture the feelings of those whose dreams, hopes, promises are always put off for a future time? https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47558/i-toohttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44428/the-n…https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47880/theme…
CUNY Queensborough Community College Week 15 Langston Hughes Discussion